Adventures with Balazar (Balazar's Bitch) - Beta

[skyrimXmania]

5 hours ago, Moma743 said:

Ran into some bugs, i think. Can't normally summon Balazar back with the spell. Can get him back using console commands but he doesn't have any conversation topics available, I can only ask him to stop scaring people and turn into a woman. No option to get him as a follower nor to progress any quests.

 

Last quest i did is freeing him and killing the cult before unsummoning him and doing some other stuff for a bit.

 

Same issue here, the guys suggested what you did as a way to solve the issue but it didn't work for me either. I ended up removing the mod, making a clean save then reloading it and starting from the second part (summon him using the spell in Riften's Hall of dead). I think you'd be fine doing so as you haven't done the jarl quests yet

[Gristle]

On 11/8/2025 at 8:22 PM, tokrat said:

I have a small problem, not directly related to the mod; it works perfectly... too perfectly, actually. I packed up all my things and went to the Thalemor Embassy to do the quest. I was asked not to take any equipment, so I did. I went in, completed the quest without any problems, came back out, and retrieved my belongings. All's well that ends well, but... I just realized that I didn't get back any of the two or three stupid things I found on the way between my house and the embassy... You know what else they didn't give me back? My quest items... you know? The items I couldn't put in my chest... So I loaded my save... Does anyone have any idea how I can complete the quest without losing all my quest items? 

thanks in advance 

 

There are actually 3 chests where PC items can be stored in this mod. 

 

1) The chest downstairs in the Thalmor HQ in Solitude - This is where the PC can choose to store their items (through dialogue with a Thalmor guard) before leaving the HQ.

2) A chest upstairs in the Thamor guard barracks at the Embassy (the building to the left of where you enter the Embassy grounds - This is where the PC's items are stored if they show up to the Embassy with any items.

3) The chest across from the cells in the Embassy dungeon - This would only have things the PC picked up while inside the Embassy.

 

To answer your question, using the dialogue in the Thalmor HQ in Solitude to store your items before leaving the HQ should work.

[Gristle]

6 hours ago, Moma743 said:

Ran into some bugs, i think. Can't normally summon Balazar back with the spell. Can get him back using console commands but he doesn't have any conversation topics available, I can only ask him to stop scaring people and turn into a woman. No option to get him as a follower nor to progress any quests.

 

Last quest i did is freeing him and killing the cult before unsummoning him and doing some other stuff for a bit.

So, you have the Summon Balazar spell but it doesn't work? Not sure why, but if you get him back with console commands, you'll need to set the following global variable to get him to follow you:

 

set BLZR_Following to 1

 

[Moma743]

6 hours ago, Gristle said:

So, you have the Summon Balazar spell but it doesn't work? Not sure why, but if you get him back with console commands, you'll need to set the following global variable to get him to follow you:

 

set BLZR_Following to 1

 

Thanks, this worked. But now the Riften quest is stuck, i've just walked into the warehouse for the party and that part shows as complete. However, none of the npcs there are doing anything, nor is the quest progressing to the next part. Would you have the setstage command to move to the next part or something?

[Dumuzi]

Just did another playthrough of the mod, and for the most part, quest wise, everything went well. There were a few instances of things not triggering when they should, but it pretty much just took reloading the last save and trying it again, at which point it proceeded fine. My only real issue with with Balazar is as a follower in general, outside of the quests. I get that he is running way too many of his own scripts to be able to use with a follower framework. And I was fine doing all of his quests with only him as a follower to avoid issues. At the end of it though, my only choices are to continue to run with only him, or have to deal with constant friendly fire issues if I decide to add other followers to the party. Also the fact that even though a number of different creatures are not aggressive to my character (One with Nature mod), he will still attack them first on sight. I get that it's a quest mod more than it's a follower mod. At this point though I guess i'll have to let him go and find another male Dremora follower that can work with NFF to fill his niche. I don't expect there's anything that can be done about it, just felt the need to get that out. Still an awesome quest mod though.

[soundwavegrate]

i am stuck with the werewolf it wont use me more then ones it just stands there howling whenever i try to talk with it and just attack me nothing more then that anyway to fix it?

[Gristle]

On 11/23/2025 at 5:44 PM, Moma743 said:

Thanks, this worked. But now the Riften quest is stuck, i've just walked into the warehouse for the party and that part shows as complete. However, none of the npcs there are doing anything, nor is the quest progressing to the next part. Would you have the setstage command to move to the next part or something?

The next couple of stages are 115, 120, 125, 130. You could start with 'setstage BLZR_Riften 115' and advance the stages until it works.

[Gristle]

On 11/26/2025 at 12:23 AM, Dumuzi said:

Just did another playthrough of the mod, and for the most part, quest wise, everything went well. There were a few instances of things not triggering when they should, but it pretty much just took reloading the last save and trying it again, at which point it proceeded fine. My only real issue with with Balazar is as a follower in general, outside of the quests. I get that he is running way too many of his own scripts to be able to use with a follower framework. And I was fine doing all of his quests with only him as a follower to avoid issues. At the end of it though, my only choices are to continue to run with only him, or have to deal with constant friendly fire issues if I decide to add other followers to the party. Also the fact that even though a number of different creatures are not aggressive to my character (One with Nature mod), he will still attack them first on sight. I get that it's a quest mod more than it's a follower mod. At this point though I guess i'll have to let him go and find another male Dremora follower that can work with NFF to fill his niche. I don't expect there's anything that can be done about it, just felt the need to get that out. Still an awesome quest mod though.

Thanks. Balazar is currently set as "Aggressive", which means he will attack anything the game decides is an "enemy" (e.g., opposing faction). I could tone him down one level to "Unaggressive", but that doesn't fit his character well. (In dog form, he is "Unaggressive" already.)

[Gristle]

4 hours ago, soundwavegrate said:

i am stuck with the werewolf it wont use me more then ones it just stands there howling whenever i try to talk with it and just attack me nothing more then that anyway to fix it?

It should try to rape you. You could try 'setstage BLZR_Riften 60' but that will skip the first of two sex scenes. Do you have werewolf animations installed and enabled?

[Dumuzi]

8 hours ago, Gristle said:

Thanks. Balazar is currently set as "Aggressive", which means he will attack anything the game decides is an "enemy" (e.g., opposing faction). I could tone him down one level to "Unaggressive", but that doesn't fit his character well. (In dog form, he is "Unaggressive" already.)

 

Fair enough. I would just consider it to be for the same reason he doesn't attack people in cities. It doesn't further his overall goals, and he has the discipline to refrain. It's your vision though, I'm just content to partake, even if I can't have him along for a full playthrough.

[soundwavegrate]

On 11/27/2025 at 10:15 PM, Gristle said:

It should try to rape you. You could try 'setstage BLZR_Riften 60' but that will skip the first of two sex scenes. Do you have werewolf animations installed and enabled?

i do have werewolf animations installed and enabled but i guess i will do the command i tried to do the command it did not work 

Edited December 1, 2025 by soundwavegrate

[Araminooo]

For some reason I can't interact with Balazar at the start of the first quest. I talked to the lady prior and got all the required mods, yet when I try to interact with the dog nothing happens. 

[nothing2lose]

hey, the windhelm quest is really nice and polished. whats the next hold you planning to cover?

[killer905]

16 hours ago, nothing2lose said:

hey, the windhelm quest is really nice and polished. whats the next hold you planning to cover?

There are Falkreath Hold, Hjaalmarch, The Pale, Whiterun Hold, and Winterhold. One of them, but there is currently no plan as to which one will be in the next update.

[Kaidrette]

Ahoi, i have a question to the embassy section.

 

At the entrance were all my Questitem seized. I've read to get them back I have to enter the barracks, but the doors are locked. I checked them ervery stage of the Quest if it was possible. So I cannot find any way to go in there.

 

Going back to Thalmor headquarter to store the IItems is not possible either because the Thalmor in the HQ are killing aech other when I enter. So the guard with the store-dialogoption dies.

 

Is there any possibility to do the quest and get my things back?

[Mozny]

I'm sort of at my wit's end with this issue. I cannot get the dragon scene in Dragonsreach to work. It always crashes the moment it tries to initiate the scene. (I did manage to progress by disabling the dragon, proceeding with dialogue, and then re-enabling the dragon, thus skipping the whole scene entirely). 

I've looked around with xEdit, did some editing, tried keywords, I simply cannot pin down the issue. My current guess is that it's something to do with my sexlab p+ but can't figure out a fix for it. Anyone have any clues?

(In the meanwhile I will advance the quest with this scene skipped, but I think this should be addressed)

crash-2025-12-14-18-18-49.lo

Worth mentioning after doing some more searching on SLP+ and the discord of the creator, people are saying OAR might have something to do with this? Will investigate and report back here. Decided this was not worth the effort so i simply continued playing and just skipping the dragon. The questline has not crashed at all after that.

EDIT: Had another crash with Sylgja upon entering her house. I think this issue is linked to the animations not existing? The crashes are consistent when trying to load only those two animations (Dragon, Fox). 


Final edit: It was SLP+. It fails to load SLSB BillyCreaturesMisc which contains these creatures.

Lesson learned. Always read your logs people. 

Edited December 15, 2025 by Mozny

[Blakus101]

hi, hi im stuck on search for a temple  (balazar's Revenge)and help balazar kill worshippers i have been into the temple in the mines killed everyone and the quest is not moving forward what do i do next?

[Mozny]

3 hours ago, Blakus101 said:

hi, hi im stuck on search for a temple  (balazar's Revenge)and help balazar kill worshippers i have been into the temple in the mines killed everyone and the quest is not moving forward what do i do next?

Had this problem too. I just advanced the questline via commands 

run "save funclist 1", this will open notepad, search for Balazar's Revenge and get the questid (first column)

sqs QUESTID -- This will show you your current status in the quest
setstage QUESTID Stage# -- I think the number was 220? for that specific stage. But do check with sqs

[Blakus101]

8 hours ago, Mozny said:

Had this problem too. I just advanced the questline via commands 

run "save funclist 1", this will open notepad, search for Balazar's Revenge and get the questid (first column)

sqs QUESTID -- This will show you your current status in the quest
setstage QUESTID Stage# -- I think the number was 220? for that specific stage. But do check with sqs

this is just opening a blank notepad with nothing in it. any idea what to do?

[Mozny]

20 hours ago, Blakus101 said:

this is just opening a blank notepad with nothing in it. any idea what to do?

Yes, so your other option for finding the quest ID would be to try "sqt" (short for "showquesttargets"). In that list you should see all your current active quests, find Balazar's Revenge and then you can proceed with the other two steps i wrote down. 

[Soda Pop]

How's progress looking? Any updates on the next hold?

[killer905]

23 minutes ago, Soda Pop said:

How's progress looking? Any updates on the next hold?

Currently, there is no work in progress on the next update. No hold selected either.

[Gristle]

On 12/3/2025 at 7:34 PM, Araminooo said:

For some reason I can't interact with Balazar at the start of the first quest. I talked to the lady prior and got all the required mods, yet when I try to interact with the dog nothing happens. 

Does a quest marker show up on the dog? If so, the main quest has started. You can check with sqv BLZR_Dialogue, which will tell you the stage. 

[Gristle]

On 12/9/2025 at 5:02 AM, Kaidrette said:

Ahoi, i have a question to the embassy section.

 

At the entrance were all my Questitem seized. I've read to get them back I have to enter the barracks, but the doors are locked. I checked them ervery stage of the Quest if it was possible. So I cannot find any way to go in there.

 

Going back to Thalmor headquarter to store the IItems is not possible either because the Thalmor in the HQ are killing aech other when I enter. So the guard with the store-dialogoption dies.

 

Is there any possibility to do the quest and get my things back?

The door to the Thalmor Embassy barracks is unlocked when you get the quest objective to travel to the Embassy. If for some reason it's locked, you can always open the console, click on the door, and type "unlock".

[Gristle]

On 12/15/2025 at 1:44 AM, Blakus101 said:

hi, hi im stuck on search for a temple  (balazar's Revenge)and help balazar kill worshippers i have been into the temple in the mines killed everyone and the quest is not moving forward what do i do next?

Spoiler

To get to the door to the temple, go to the back of the mine, enter the top level on the right, and then circle back around to the left. The door is near the end of that path.